Dispatches from the 10th Crusade

Entries from What's Wrong with the World tagged with 'blues'

by Nolan Cella and Paul Cella If it sounds strange to talk of Rocky Mountain Soul, that’s because, until very recently, that sub-genre of music did not really exist; and it is only a slight exaggeration to say that a...

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In late April, Bob Dylan, backed by an expert band, supplied an attentive audience at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre with warm, bluesy, bracing musical entertainment, mostly comprised of songs he has written over the last decade. Even the older tunes,...

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Two-timing Slim / Who’s ever heard of him? / I’ll drag his corpse through the mud When you reflect that the corpse in all human history most infamously dragged through the mud is Hector, and that Bob Dylan here in...

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Below the fold is a bit of bosh by me. I read this story about Bob Dylan’s music being securitized in order to capture the royalties in a fixed-income chimera; I laughed and my mind just naturally drifted in idle...